Archive: sustainability
34 Articles
- Environmental Justice
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Green Commons Award Recipient: Georgetown Women’s Center
A review of the outcomes from a Green Commons award to the Georgetown’s Women’s Center for a study on the sustainability of menstrual. …
April 19, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Food & Water
- Max Scheiner
- Spring 2024
The Mega Impact of Microplastics: the Reality of the “Great” Pacific Garbage Patch
Georgetown student, Max Scheiner breaks down the true implications of the Pacific Garbage. …
April 17, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Madhura Shembekar
- Shelby Gresch
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Revisited: Shelby Gresch, the Force Behind the Hoya Harvest Garden
For our anniversary issue, Common Home checks back in with Shelby Gresch, post-baccalaureate fellow with the Earth Commons responsible for the Hoya Harvest. …
March 30, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
What’s Under Foot: Land, Environment, and Climate Change
Georgetown professor Tim Bartley draws the significant connection between land and climate. …
March 26, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Sarah Devermann
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Leveraging Technology to Make Smallholder Farming Sustainable
Georgetown alumni shares her work in making technology available for small. …
March 22, 2024
- Alannah Nathan
- Cecelia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
MICHELIN Guide’s Green Star Celebrates Sustainability at the World’s Top Restaurants
Common Home editor, Alannah Nathan, examines Michelin Guide’s new Green Star awards and some of its.…
March 20, 2024
- Arts & Culture
- Climate Change
- Elyza Bruce
- Spring 2024
What We’re Reading: “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth” by Elizabeth Rush
Common Home editor, Elyza Bruce reviews “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth” by Elizabeth Rush for Common Home series, “What We’re.”…
March 18, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Brian M. Griffiths
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Food, Culture, and Conservation in Maijuna Lands
A creative nonfiction piece by Assistant Professor Griffiths on his research with Peruvian Indigenous.…
March 15, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Interrupt & Integrate: Environmental Courses Under Development at Georgetown
Earth Commons Post-Bac Fellow Keaton Nara provides insight on the interdisciplinary, environmental courses taking shape at.…
March 13, 2024
- Adam Shaham
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Challenges in Mangrove Restoration: Does it Work?
Georgetown alumni Adam Shaham explains his Fulbright research on mangrove.…
March 11, 2024